TikTok has agreed to pay $400m (£293 million) in the US to settle a landmark case against them for violating children’s online privacy in what is being hailed as ‘a major victory for parents and their children’.
The social media and video platform app agreed to what is one of the largest ever settlements agreed by big tech in a similar case yesterday after being accused of illegally harvesting the details of millions of users aged under 13 in the US.
The US Department of Justice sued TikTok and its Chinese former parent company ByteDance in August 2024 during former president Joe
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